Re: [hylafax-users] faxrcvd script to convert incoming faxes to jpg

[Greg Herlein <gherlein@herlein.com>]

> Well. JPEG is certainly not the format of choice for black-and-white
> graphics. Depending on your compression factor you will observe lots

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> 
> package not lose your modifications. The trick is to redefine the
> FAX2PS environment which is being used by $SPOOL/etc/faxrcvd. Look at
> this similar thing, converting received faxes to PostScript (requires
> ghostscript and metamail) in addition to TIFF:

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Yes, but I had a contract requirement to convert incoming faxes
into a file format that a Win32 client could easily see.  The
default faxrcvd script already does the conversion to postscript.
GIF would probably have looked better, but there are patent
"issues" there.

Greg

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